No leader, no ideas: a party at the gates of Hell

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Even some of his new Cabinet question the strength of a Prime Minister who now lacks any sense of political direction

This is a government of the living dead, a zombie administration, devastated, divided and directionless. The Prime Minister has been wounded but not killed. He limps on, disrespected by ministers, resented by backbenchers, disliked by the electorate. He is in office but not in power, strong enough to see off a cack-handed coup but too weak to appoint a chancellor of his choice. Yesterday another minister, Jane Kennedy, resigned in protest about his bullying political style.

Labour politicians are stuck in limbo, like the uncommitted at the gates of Hell in Dante’s Inferno, pursued by wasps and eaten by maggots